invoke user's standard mail client

[Stefan Sonnenberg-Carstens]

Gabriel Genellina schrieb:
> En Fri, 04 May 2007 05:07:44 -0300, luc.saffre at gmail.com  
> <luc.saffre at gmail.com> escribió:
>
>   
>> the simplest way to launch the user's standard mail client from a
>> Python program is by creating a mailto: URL and launching the
>> webbrowser:
>> But this method is limited: you cannot specify a file to be attached
>> to the mail. And I guess that there would be problems if the body text
>> is too complex.
>> Does somebody know about a better method?
>> It should be possible at least on Windows, since Acrobat Reader is
>> able to do it.
>>     
>
> On Windows you can use MAPI.
>
>   
import win32api
win32api.ShellExecute(0,'open','mailto:',None,None,0)